The Front Line Guide to Thinking Clearly

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Chapter 4

Personal Learning Challenges

vercoming all the mind-blocking impediments to think-

ing clearly is a tough challenge for any of us. We have to

go back to the beliefs on which we have based our lives and

restructure them to reflect entirely different values. There are

three factors that get in the way of our ability to think clearly:

intense personal dislike, perceived wrong-doing or unfairness,

and religious, racial, or sexual hypersensitivity.

Theoretically, we leave all those extraneous issues behind

when we go to work, but in practice, that discipline often fails

us when something happens that triggers a reflexive response. ...